Читать книгу Questions and Answers for Dental Nurses - Carole Hollins - Страница 20

For each of the following consent and record keeping questions, select the single most appropriate answer from the option list. Each option might be used once, more than once or not at all.

1 Access to Health Records 1990

2 Consent

3 Contractual

4 Data Protection Act 1998

5 Freedom of Information Act 2000

6 General Data Protection Regulations 2018

7 Legal obligation

8 Legitimate interest

9 Mental Capacity Act 2005

10 Public interest

1 Under the General Data Protection Regulations 2018, all dental workplaces must state the lawful basis for holding personal information about both their patients and their staff. Which one of the options listed is the lawful basis under which a dental workplace holds patients’ addresses so that appointment reminders can be sent out in a timely manner?

2 When an adult patient dies, the dental workplace is obliged to hold onto their records for a minimum amount of time before securely destroying them. Medico‐legally the workplace is advised to maintain the records for 10 years after the patient’s last attendance (so 11 years in total). Which one of the options listed is the Act that allows a relevant person to receive copies of these records when requested?

3 The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) produced a document titled ‘GDPR: 12 Steps to Take Now’ to assist all workplaces to become compliant with the new regulations. One of the steps advises how the dental workplace can use the data they hold about their patients for marketing purposes, stating that patients must ‘opt in’ to receive marketing information from the workplace, and that the workplace must also have permission to use a patient’s image or testimonial in any marketing they undertake. Which one of the options listed is the term used in the ICO document that explains this step?

4 Under the General Data Protection Regulations 2018, all dental workplaces must state the lawful basis for holding personal information about both their patients and their staff. Which one of the options listed is the lawful basis under which the workplace can hold the National Insurance numbers of all its employees?

5 Sometimes a situation arises in the healthcare sector where it is considered in the public’s interest for statistical information to be released, such as the number of pre‐school children requiring dental extractions due to caries in fluoridated and non‐fluoridated areas of the country. Which one of the options listed is the Act under which these types of requests can be made by a person, an organisation or the media?